Largest open experiment: frontier models close 82% gap to human record in autonomous AI research
inductionheads · x · 2026-08-17
PrimeIntellect ran the largest open experiment on how frontier models do AI research. 100+ autonomous runs across 10+ models, sandboxed on 8xH200s for up to 8 days, iterating on the nanoGPT optimizer track. Best runs closed 82% of the gap to a record built by dozens of humans over months. FakePsyho comments that optimization problems are better at testing creativity and thus better proxies for RSI than ML problems.
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